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SANJAY SINGH: My name is Sanjay Singh.
I run the Google Alphabet ecosystem unit inside HCL
And today I'm going to share with you my perspectives on how
customers have taken data center transformation
journey to the Cloud.
Established business processes are not
working the way they were intended to work.
We have a demand-side problems, supply chain-side problems,
we have customer mix issues.
This reflects the way we work, working
on Workforce Management from our business process execution.
The current technology stack, which the customers have today
on prem cannot support this rapid type of transformation
that's required to address the changing market scenarios.
If the enterprises don't execute the DC exit strategy correctly,
they have the potential of doubling
their current ongoing cost.
The opportunity to transform your business
to address the good, the new normal, we
need new capability to be established today.
And those execution strategies can also get delayed.
I'll give you an example of large CPG companies
that we helped migrate three data centers
in earlier part of this year.
So if they are not executed into their data centers
within the time frame that they have planned for,
their penalties will have been in tens of millions of dollars.
And further, they had multiple business lines.
And one of their business lines in the pandemic
was experiencing 3x the demand, whereas the other business line
was seeing a strong decline.
They had [INAUDIBLE] their working hours
and established new ways of working for their employees
remotely or even within plant factory.
A lot of those capabilities didn't
exist in their existing systems onprem,
so the faster they got to the Cloud,
the better they would have been able to address
that opportunity.
And HCL and Google did that together for them very
successfully, letting them out on the [INAUDIBLE]
about four months' time.
When you do a DC transfer mission to the Cloud,
please plan to set up a Cloud center of excellence
internally within the organization.
You should have Standards and Architecture Office.
This is the team of architects which
select what components of the Cloud
should go in, what workloads should have,
what deployment strategy should we use,
a containment strategy, a macro services strategy.
How do you use data in the AI implementation
with a vendor budget sector?
Second is that you need to bring in a lot of fiscal discipline,
because now Cloud is a pay-per-use model for you.
You need to make sure people understand that you cannot have
the leakage of cost and you need to bring in their discipline.
So financial training, financial controls
is very, very important within the Cloud CO setup.
You need to plan for OCM, which is Organizational Chain
Management, because you will be moving from a waterfall working
model to a DevSecOps model.
You will be required to work in agile and comms-based teams.
You will have to [INAUDIBLE] liability engineering
and play from the liability engineering
to deliver your programs faster, better, and cheaper.
And the last point is that we strongly
recommend that you transition first to the Google Cloud
and then transform later, because it
is cheaper and faster to do it in the Cloud.
And it just opens up new possibilities for you,
which you cannot do it while you're doing it on prem.
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